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True art proposes the possibility of individual and social freedom, and asks us the question (in the context of e.g. Of Montreal's music),
“Can you return to being in the world in the way you were in the world before you heard this song?”
— Aug 21, 2021 11:45AM
“Can you return to being in the world in the way you were in the world before you heard this song?”
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W.D. Clarke
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[Schelling's] System [of Transcendental Idealism (1800)] has the feel of a book trying to discover what it really thinks (always the best kind of book).
— Aug 22, 2021 01:46PM
W.D. Clarke
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For Stephen Pinker, the brain is a “biologically selected neural computer.” What's more,
art is a “biologically frivolous and vain” activity interested only in critical obscurantism, social status, and the tickling of the brain’s dopamine reward system (like cheesecake).
And I think this computer needs more cheesecake.
— Aug 21, 2021 08:06AM
art is a “biologically frivolous and vain” activity interested only in critical obscurantism, social status, and the tickling of the brain’s dopamine reward system (like cheesecake).
And I think this computer needs more cheesecake.
W.D. Clarke
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Ahh, the good ol days OF the neoliberalism-Big Science dynamic duo, before Q finally caught Bill Gates putting microchips in all the vaccines...
While science continues to pummel fundamentalism, the far more destructive work of what C. Wright Mills called the “power elite” gets a pass. Where is Richard Dawkins’s book on the almighty, self-correcting Market God?
— Mar 30, 2021 05:52PM
While science continues to pummel fundamentalism, the far more destructive work of what C. Wright Mills called the “power elite” gets a pass. Where is Richard Dawkins’s book on the almighty, self-correcting Market God?
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“Boredom murders the heart of our age / while sanguinary creeps have the stage / boredom strangles the life from the printed page.” (Of Montreal, “Forecast Fascist Future,” The Sunlandic Twins ) The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity? And all with brutal guitar riffs and a very danceable rhythm!
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